Reading the article, “Palestinians Cheer Carnage,” published in the throes of the Second Intifada twenty-two years ago, elicits far more than a déjà vu. It reminds me that the horrors of October 7 did not so much trigger a war as reignite one. It foreshadows the complex challenges Israel still faces in distinguishing civilians from…
This piece was originally published in The Times of Israel. In contrast to English, in which people who can’t get their bearings straight become disoriented—literally, they fail to find the east—in Hebrew, people ma’abedim et ha- tzafon, they lose the north. The distinction could not be more appropriate. With each day of mass displacement, deadly rocket and…
Hezbollah won’t accept a ceasefire unless Hamas does. Hamas will not agree to a ceasefire. Hence, Israel will go to war against Hezbollah. MICHAEL OREN JUL 03, 2024 58 20 Share This article originally appeared in the Times of Israel. US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the war between Israel and Hamas after meeting Prime…
Military Tactic, Media Strategy MICHAEL OREN JUN 20, 2024 78 84 Share This is Part II of a three-part series on the dilemmas posed by Israel’s Iron Dome. Read Part I here. Stay tuned for Part III. Israeli soldiers, above, this month watched the launch of an Iron Dome antimissile weapon designed to blast Hamas rockets…
Terrorist rockets rain on Israeli towns and villages. Tens of thousands are displaced, dozens killed, and vast swaths of territory are set ablaze. Sounds like the Gaza Envelope, the belt of Israeli communities bordering Gaza in the south — but it describes the reality in Israel’s north. Starting with Hamas’ invasion of Oct. 7, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon…
The Almost Impenetrable Dome MICHAEL OREN JUN 13, 2024 104 24 Share At 6:28 in the morning of October 7, 2023, the coral sky over the Nova dance festival was streaked with rockets. The largest single barrage in the history of Hamas’s bombardments of Israel—2,000 fired within an hour—spurred the police guarding Nova to stop the music…
Why Israel should NOT have a “day after plan” for Gaza DANIEL POMERANTZ JUN 06, 2024 59 6 Share On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Riyadh last month, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and ministers from six Arab countries met to discuss a vision for the “day after” the war in Gaza.…
(Courtesy) Editor’s Note: On December 11, 2023, Clarity published “The One Simple Question That Determines Everything: Part I,” the first section of a two-part guest piece by Professor Andrew Pessin on October 7 and its reception across college campuses. In “‘One Simple Question’ Revisited,” Professor Pessin details the intellectual and personal costs of campus antisemitism…
Seventy-six years ago today a single act of courage may have saved the newborn state of Israel MICHAEL OREN MAY 29, 2024 2 Share Thirty years ago, pursuing a lifelong dream, I wrote a film script. It told the story of the legendary British general, Orde Wingate. The father of guerrilla warfare, Wingate was…
This guest post from Amelia Adams was originally published on her Substack, Inside the Mind of a Neurotic Jewish Gay In the wake of pro hama–sorry, pro “resistance” rallies and encampments, it seems that everyone’s jaws are on the floor. People just cannot believe that US college students are aligning themselves with terrorist regimes. Boomers scratch their heads while…
